Bridle blinder or winker



(No Model.)

M. S. STARKWEATHER. BRIDLE BLINDBR 0R WINKER.

No. 422,652. Patented Mar. 4, 1890.

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MARTIN S. STARKIVEATIIER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BRIDLE BLINDER OR WINKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 422,652, dated March4,1890.

Application filed June 10, 1889. Serial No. 313,655. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN S. STARK- WEATHER, of Boston, in the countyof Suffolk and Stateof Massachusetts, a citizen of the United Stateshaveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Bridle Blinders orIVinkers, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of thisspecification, in explaining its nature.

The invention relates to the herein-de scribed improvement in winkers orblinders for bridles.

I'Ieretofore it has been customary to make the winker or blinder and thecheek-strap separate, and to unite the same by a process which involvedconsiderable expense. My invention consists in making the winker andcheek-strap integral.

Referring to .the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in elevation of a winkerand cheekstrap having the features of my invention. Fig. 2 is a verticalsection of the cheek-strap. Fig. 3 is a section through the winker. Fig.4. is a View in elevation of the winker and cheekstrap, showing thebuckles secured to the strap, as hereinafter specified. Fig. 5 is asection upon the dotted line of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 represents the attachmentof a leather end or strap by riveting to the cheek-strap shown in Fig.4. I

In practicing the invention I take a moldable material containing rubberand capable of vulcanization, either re-enforced by fibrousmaterial-like cloth or canvasor wire-gauze, or both, and by means ofsuitable molds form under heat and pressure the winker or blinder A andthe cheek-strap a, the blinder and cheek-strap being homogeneous andintegral. There may also be formed at the same time and of the samematerial the crownstrap a. The cheek-strap may have its ends a a shapedto be secured to buckles carried by or attached to other straps; or thebuckles a a and loops a may be united to the ends of the cheek-strap bymolding the material about the same during the formation of the winkerand strap, as represented in Figs. i and 5, inwhich event a leatherstrap end a is subsequently riveted to the lower end of the cheek-strap,as represented in Fig. 6. 'By making the winker and cheekstrap ofmoldable material and integral the cost of construction ismateriallydiminished and a desirable result obtained and without theexpenditure of the labor necessary in uniting the winker to thecheek-strap.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States- 1. As an improved article ofmanufacture, a blinder or winker of moldable material molded to therequired shape and having at- 3. The co1nbination,with the molded blindA and the moldedcheek-strap a, integral therewith and provided withmolded-in buckles a a and the molded-in loops at", of the strap aattached to said cheek-strap, substantially as set forth.

MARTIN S. STARKlVEATl-IER.

Witnesses:

F. F. RAYMOND, 2d, J. M. DOLAN.

